VIDEO: 'SNL' Alum Rachel Dratch Gives LHS Grads Improv Advice for Life
The improv comedienne, who graduated from Lexington High School in 1984, returned home to deliver the commencement speech to LHS Class of 2012 on Sunday, June 3 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell.
At high school graduations, the commencement speaker is almost always someone from the Class of Fill-in-the-Blank with an impressive resume. Rarely does said resume include stints with Second City and “Saturday Night Live.” So when Lexington native and “SNL” alum Rachel Dratch stepped to the podium at the graduation ceremony Lexington High School’s Class of 2012, it was pretty clear the life lessons would come with a lot of laughs. “I turned my love of disrupting class into a focused study of improv comedy,” said Dratch, who graduated LHS in 1984. “I joined the improv group in college, I went on to Second City in Chicago and finally onto ‘Saturday Night Live.’ This meteoric rise to success took 10 years, so know that the cliché of …
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